Introduction to Digital Humanities

John D. Muccigrosso

23 May 2022

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5-Star Data

From inventor of the web, Tim Berners Lee

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5-Star Data

⭐️ Data is available on the Web, in whatever format.

⭐️⭐️ Available as machine-readable structured data, (i.e., not a scanned image).

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Available in a non-proprietary format, (i.e, CSV, not Microsoft Excel).

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Published using open standards from the W3C (RDF and SPARQL).

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ All of the above and links to other Linked Open Data.

Some Examples

15th Century Florentine Marriages Data from Padgett and Ansell (Wikipedia)
Credit: Ted Underwood
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Some simple(r) scholarly things

Some simple(r) scholarly things II

Some simple(r) scholarly things III

  • Zooniverse: “the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research”

Other Random Things

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